I'm sorry I got into this. It is so simplistic as to be errant nonsense.
Harry how can you utter such platitudes? Haven't you ever heard of
television advertising? We have been dumbing down the market for so long
with our ads that serious quality is possible only for the leisured.
That is not the case in Milan where the local communist tailor still
understands the difference between an upbeat and a down beat chord in stark
contrast to even our "artists" who record many of the hits today. Perhaps
you can justify this pap but I cannot. It is also surely not the same
with the former communists who come here to make fools of our audiences and
earn a little easy cash at our expense. This is embarrasing. I'm not an
economist but even I can see through this garbage.
Words are complicated Harry unless you know only one meaning and then they
only seem simple. On the other hand no one seems to know the way out of
the competition between TV advertisement sitcoms and Eugene O'Neil. Out in
bible land they still follow the great philosopher Mary Worth. I can
assure you that those magnificent young people who were sacrificed on
September 11th were not of that ilk. My students taught some of them and
they will be missed. I'm wasting my time here.
You have to learn to speak French before you can decide the meaning of the
sentence. Up until that time, what you want is impossible to know and that
is what is wrong with your bazaar. Unfortunately there is a great deal of
difference between the bazaar and today's market in spite of the coneheads
who run it. Do not answer this!
REH
----- Original Message -----
From: Harry Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ray Evans Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Classical Political Appendixes and other etc.s and the other
Friedman.
>
> Ray wrote:
>
> "I'm afraid that it happening is about as likely as Senator Jesse Helms
> writing an article defining artistic ideals and the way that America could
> develop a serious economic program for the funding of the arts. In spite
> of what the supply and demand folks say about such funding, the current
free
> market has been an unmitigated failure in such things, indeed in funding
> anything that derives its motivation from inner quality and exceptional
> exploration or innovation."
>
> HARRY: All you are saying, Ray, is that the free market - decisions made
by
> people - follows the wishes of people not to give money to the arts.
> However, political leaders who are obviously superior to the great
unwashed
> outside the Beltway are prepared to give the money of the great unwashed
to
> finance artistic things.
>
> The free market cannot be a failure. All it does - if it's allowed - is to
> record the desires of the people, You may not like their decisions (I may
> not like their decisions) but if we are supposed to be "democratic", we
> should listen to what people want.
>
> You wrote:
>
> "Instead we get Land, Labor, Capital and Wealth. And "Man seeks to
satisfy
> his desires with the least exertion." I think Parkinson's Law makes
more
> sense economically and when tied to the Peter Principle more represents
> Democratic humanity than anything written thus far. PL ("Work expands to
> fit the time allotted to it." & "People tend to rise to the level of
> their incompetence." )"
>
> HARRY: I like both Parkinson and Peter, but they are discussing corporate
> politics and not economics at all.
>
> The four categories - Land, Labor, Capital, and Wealth - are simply names
> given to defined concepts. These four concepts cover everything in the
> universe. It makes possible analysis of people's economic behavior - their
> relationships and their relationship to the earth.
>
> The major problem in discussion is to make sure that all speak the same
> language - that when anyone uses a term such as Land, or Labor, he is
> talking about what I mean when I use Land, or Labor.
>
> Then, we can talk meaningfully to each other and work toward
understanding.
>
> "Man seeks to satisfy his desires with the least exertion" is a
description
> of how Man behaves. It's actually the key to all progress. It's also
> something formal to be aware of when one studies Man. Mostly, we know it
> anyway because it's the way we act - and it's the way everyone else we
> observe acts.
>
> Anyway, it makes a great initial Assumption for the study of Classical
> Political Economy, which above all else is the study of human behavior.
>
> Harry
>
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